Agricultural proverb "La Xue is a treasure, but Chun Xue is not good". Why do you say that?

Snow and solar terms are just around the corner, and the weather has turned sharply. It has begun to snow in some areas, and the wind is biting everywhere. There are many folk sayings about heavy snow, such as' It would be nice to have heavy snow in a good year',' It's chilly in spring without freezing heavy snow',' It's snowing, and Chun Xue has been warm for a long time' and so on. These proverbs are all farmers' experiences, which means that heavy snow is good, but there is another saying. What's the point?

In early years, it snowed heavily. Children in rural areas can make snowmen and have snowball fights. But now, due to global warming, it is not as heavy as before. However, for the north, we still expect heavy snow. Whipping snow is the snow that falls after the winter solstice and before the beginning of spring. Snow at this time can kill pests and germs in the soil, decompose organic matter in the soil and enhance soil fertility. Crops covered with snow can also keep a certain temperature to prevent frost from damaging it. There will be a bumper harvest of crops next year.

Chun Xue is the snow after beginning of spring. After beginning of spring, everything revived and all kinds of crops began to grow. A heavy snow will cause crops to freeze, especially in late spring, which will make crops fail. Therefore, Chun Xue is not good. In our northern region, wax snow has other functions. Old people in the village filled bottles with wax snow and buried them underground. When their children get prickly heat next summer, they can cure it by taking it out and scrubbing their bodies, but Chun Xue can't. In fact, the use of wax snow as medicine was discovered and used in ancient times. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica Water, Wax and Snow: "The third solstice after beginning of winter is wax, and the first three snows are wax, so it is advisable to eat wheat and kill locusts. Wax snow seals the shade, which is not bad for decades. "

It can be seen that the peasant proverb "La Xue is a treasure, but Chun Xue is not good" has some truth. Farmers' harvest depends on the weather, and this heavy snow is the quilt of crops. For next year's harvest, it will snow heavily this year1February!